SXU Baseball Alum Wins World Series With Houston Astros

CHICAGO, IL — A member of the 2017 World Series Champion Houston Astros played college baseball at Saint Xavier University. Luke Gregerson, a relief pitcher for the Astros, is one of the 25 active roster members that will receive a World Series ring after the Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night.

Gregerson pitched in two games and faced five Dodger batters in the World Series, one that will go down as one of the best ever in the more than 100-year history of Major League Baseball. He put in one full inning of work over the two games giving up one hit, one walk and striking out two.

In a memorable Game 5, Gregerson pitched the Astros out of a jam while the Dodgers had multiple runners on base.

.@sxubaseball alum Luke Gregerson now pitching for the @astros in Game 5 of the #WorldSeries! pic.twitter.com/jgp49URQ1l
— SXU Athletics (@gosxucougars) October 30, 2017

In the mid-2000s, Gregerson was a pitcher for an SXU baseball team that saw its peak with an appearance in the NAIA World Series appearance in 2006. Before his time at SXU, the Park Ridge native played high school baseball at J. Sterling Morton High School in Berwyn.

He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft and before the Astros spent time with the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics. In 2012, he broke the MLB record for holds (40) while with the Padres.

In the 2017 regular season for the Astros, Gregerson went 2-3 with a 4.67 ERA over 61 innings pitched.

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